Operation Backpack a Success!

By Dana Simas, Director of Communications and Public Affairs

Department of Child Support Services

The California Department of Child Support Services recently participated in Volunteers of America’s Operation Backpack aimed at providing local foster youth with back-to-school items they need to successfully start off the school year.

Collectively, DCSS was able to collect more than 50 backpacks, approximately 35 of which were fully packed with items such as paper, glue, pencils, calculators, crayons, colored pencils, etc.

In addition to all of the physical donations, DCSS employees and friends donated more than $1,600 in cash donations. This will help purchase hundreds more items and backpacks for foster and homeless youth to start the school year off with the supplies they need to be successful.

  

DCSS’s Office of Communications and Public Affairs (OCPA) organized the DCSS event by creating videos and poster ads encouraging donations. Sharing the event and donation links on social media encouraged those even outside of DCSS to donate to the cause.


OCPA piled all of the items into a van and dropped them off at the Roseville Kids Care Dental location on Friday, July 22nd where more than 5,000 total backpacks were collected. Representatives from DCSS were interviewed by FOX 40, giving positive exposure to the department and its commitment to helping children and families in California.

 

 

 

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